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What is the average startup entrepreneur age? ie your age (I am 26 almost)

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Re: What is the average startup entrepreneur age? ie your age (I am 26 almost)

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Post by uuilly »

tipjoy wrote: post #44
pg wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The two main differences are that the older guys tend to be better presenters, and more tied down geographically.

Lots of talk about 'healthy white males' and 'guys' on news.yc tonight. I understand women are in the minority, but we do exist. Correction: I just re-checked the other post I was referring to and they said "healthy young male" not "healthy white male". My apologies for the misquote.

Ha! It was me who wrote the "white males" comment.

I write the way I code. Start with as big a generalization as possible and fix my edge cases at runtime...

Alas that a female news.ycer is an edge case. Even when they punch holes in my unified theory of all male startups, they are infinitely more pleasant than bus errors.

Re: What is the average startup entrepreneur age? ie your age (I am 26 almost)

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Post by sanj »

nanijoe wrote: post #48
sanj wrote: post #46

I think the better metric is age / (# of startups) in my case: 36/3 = 12

So how did those 3 startups work out?

The first was a group of college friends who wrote software for handhelds. It was really fun, and made enough to keep us above the grad student poverty line. We also always had nice(ish) computers. Given my low expectations, I count Scrawl as a success.

It was (effectively) cannibalized to start PatientKeeper. We raised ~$70M in venture and our software is now in use at an amazing number of hospitals. Though it hasn't had (I love this euphemism) liquidity event, I count it as a success. We employ ~90 people and touch thousands of physicans and hundreds of thousands of lives.

At the risk of being a tease, I'm not ready to talk about the third.

Re: What is the average startup entrepreneur age? ie your age (I am 26 almost)

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Post by gibsonf1 »

gibsonf1 wrote: post #42

41 (first startup (architecture) @ 30) & 33

Before architecture: Victoria Bicycles (startup @ 17), Moondog BBS @17 (Used a commodore 64's random access floppy drive to create a dbase sytem), Business Design Consultants (Used an IBM PC w/ Watson soundcard and Dbase to create touch tone ordering system) @ 22
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